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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1913
Page
2
Publication notice describes the Weekly Kansas City Star’s Thursday issue with farm news etiquette tips and farmer help features. It promotes Answers inquiries, serial stories, and social guidance, noting no harmful ads, and lists a one year combined Mansfield Mirror and Star subscription for $1.15.
E W Yorum and son of Mountain Grove have been here the past week. Mr Yorum is secretary of the Wright County Mutual Fire Insurance Co. The company will hold its annual meeting April 4, at which time it will be three years old. It has charged members 25 cents per $100 a year for insurance, a creditable showing. Mr Yoenum reports a large and increasing business for the company.
An advertisement touts Swift’s Superphosphate as a premier general crop fertilizer. It claims early growth, continuous health through maturity, soil fertility, and strong performance across crops including corn wheat oats timothy tomatoes potatoes vegetables vines and fruit trees, especially where soils lack potash.
J F B Wilson and wife urge Mansfield and surrounding residents to begin preparations for a second annual fall carnival at the Wilson Farm home of Shorthorn cattle and Polish China hogs. Mrs Wilson hopes locals arrange exhibitions and farmers raise something extra fine for the event.
Sera Dennis fell from a scaffold on Monday while on the new J. K. P. Coday brick project and drove a nail through his foot, causing a painful injury.
The Handy family extends sincere thanks to all who tendered services during their recent bereavement. The note expresses gratitude for support and sympathy shown to R. I. Handy and family.
Notable week with only three tardies in the month as cold weather skews attendance. Miss Ginskill leads in largest daily attendance, Miss Keller maintains daily turnout, and Mr. Hylton posts highest attendance rate. Seventh and eighth grades will focus term review while many students join Hartville eighth graders for rural graduation. The new high school aid law could bring Mansfield district $500 more next year if the levy passes.
More snow blankets the area as James Frosts sale proceeds despite bad weather. Mrs. Kate Schafer and Claud head to Albuquerque for her son's health. William Busby visits from Springfield. Sheriff probes witness subpoenas for Yandles and Oetting trial. Dr. Rogers treats W. T. Pollock's sick wife. Mrs. Bradberry stays with Pollock family amid illness. News remains scarce locally.
A pleasant surprise occurred at the J. B. Seymour home on March 17 for Grand papa Seymour’s 77th birthday anniversary. The family enjoyed birthday cake and music from the Shinpaugh orchestra, which played in the library. Guests were entertained with games, and refreshments were served late into the night as heartfelt best wishes were exchanged.
Spring rains bring a claim that Texas Wonder cures kidney and bladder issues in men women and children. It purports to remove gravel regulate bladder ailments and back rheumatism and other irregularities. A one dollar mail offer from Dr. F W Hall Saint Louis Missouri is advertised with testimonials.
Mansfield Mirror advertises that subscribers who order before the edition sells out will receive the Almanac Poor Richard Revised for 1913 if they write on their order in time. Early orders move the Farm Journal ahead four years, while no booklet results in a five year subscription, and a separate order form is provided to obtain both papers.
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